Business Groups

Small business can be a lonely and scary place for its owners.

The truth is that most people who set up small businesses are typically really good technicians.  They know their profession, craft, trade or industry, but frequently know nothing about how to run a business.  And, why would they?  People are not born knowing how.   

For people just starting a business there is the thrill of possibility and fulfilling your dream.  Yet, all the excitement and anticipation can be thwarted in the realization that there is so much to know in running a business, and it doesn’t come with a user manual.   How would you know how to prepare and monitor cash flow projections, create budgets, and track KPIs (or for that matter, even know what KPIs are)? What experience would you have in creating a marketing strategy or doing sales?  As time is the biggest constraint for a small business owner, how do you get advice on managing your schedule and committing to the best use of your time?  

If you have been running your business for a while, whatever business acumen you’ve developed has probably been on your own, through trial and error and probably the hard way. You might find that you experience a great number of hurdles for which you feel unprepared. Over time, you might have become more and more set in your ways, which are, in all likelihood, not the best and most efficient ways of doing things.  Your perceptions and beliefs may have become distorted by habitual thought patterns that keep yielding the same undesirable results.  Insanity is defined as repeating the same behaviour and expecting different results.  But, since this is the only behaviour you have in your repertoire, where do you go to get honest feedback and insight about how to do things differently?

In small business, the consequences of poor choices, poor systems and/or lack of education and/or knowledge can be stressful, financially devastating, and can have far reaching consequences that might effect your stress levels, your quality of life, your health, and your family.

Where do you go for advice and help?  Many small businesses rely on their accountants for business advice.  Yet, accountants are trained in doing numbers and preparing tax returns – not in running businesses.  

Business coaches and management consultants are terribly expensive and can be cost prohibitive and therefore inaccessible to small businesses.

So, what do you do?  Well, here’s an idea…

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a group of like-minded friends and colleagues who cared about your business almost as much as you do and are willing to give you honest advice and feedback? Wouldn’t it be great to learn about the ins and outs of managing and running a successful business from someone who has not only built up her own small business from scratch and sold it off, but has also consulted with, and transformed thousands of businesses?  

Randi Goda, an international speaker, executive coach, management consultant, trainer, group facilitator, lawyer and business woman, with over 30 years of experience, has launched business boards all over the world.  In the boards she has created, the members assist one another in the ongoing growth and development of their businesses.  And, in reality, these groups have become close-knit communities of friends, allies, co-marketers and co- sales people for each other’s businesses, each others’ consciences, and comrades at arms.  Board members assist one another in setting goals, seeing clearly, telling the truth (even when it is uncomfortable) and supporting each other through thick and thin by providing reality checks and advocating for one another.  

When you combine Randi’s expertise, together with the power of a group, magic happens.  

If you have a business and this sounds like something that you might be interested in, then, you are invited to join in.

Mission

The aim of this group is to generate a fun and fulfilling business learning organization committed to continuous growth and development and comprised of a close-knit community of business owners, whom through open, honest and heartfelt communication with one another, expand beyond their preconceived limitations in setting and achieving personal and professional goals on their journeys toward manifesting businesses of pure desire and living the lives they dare to dream about.